A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
JOSEPH JOUBERTLogic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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